A Winnipeg family is speaking out after they say their grandmother’s CT scan involving medical contrast dye went horribly wrong.

The family tells Global News their 78-year-old grandmother, Kathy Boychuk, was not informed to stop taking her diabetes medication before the procedure, and as a result has been left with severe kidney damage.

“(It’s) hell, plain and simple,” Boychuk told Global News over a video call from her hospital bed. “I am in so much pain, you cannot believe it. I went through hell and back and that should have not happened.”

Boychuk went in for a CT scan on her abdomen at Grace Hospital on May 25. She returned home, but days later was rushed to the Health Sciences Centre (HSC). They say the doctors told them her kidneys were shutting down.

“From May 25 — when the proc

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